VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL INTEGRATION VIA ERP

Brief description of the technology

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a type of software that allows businesses to manage day-to-day business activities such as accounting, procurement, project management, risk management, compliance, and supply chain operations.

ERP software prepared for Industry 5.0 is characterized by being highly adaptable to specific requirements, has several original possibilities and allows business management adapted to needs, encompassing all the company’s processes. The tool usually allows you to add extra functionality in a simple way to adapt to the business model, changes in the company or specific characteristics of the sector.

Benefits of joining the company

The different ERP solutions offer the possibilities common to the main enterprise resource planning systems on the market (reduction of inefficiencies, effective planning, resource allocation, standardization of processes or automation of tasks, among many others); It stands out especially in the following factors:

Flexible Deployment

Once the deployment method has been chosen, whether on-premise, cloud or hybrid solution, it is possible to change these requirements at any time.

Time and cost savings

A central database allows you to increase productivity, share knowledge between departments and reduce duplication or errors. Employing best practices in each process improves efficiency and flexibility, while increasing productivity and collaboration.

Greater control of the business

ERP software enables better-informed decision-making by the company’s key users, offering the necessary insight to monitor business performance at any point in a process.

Examples of application in companies

Integration of different databases and software

Business group made up of 4 companies, with different software and 4 isolated databases. The implemented solution allows integrated management, having consistent information in all databases and the data enters the corresponding system only once, being automatically transferred to all the processes of the system.

Implementation of ERP in a company with several activities

17 POS terminals were installed in the supermarket, 1 POS in the warehouse and 2 more POS terminals in the sportswear store, attached to the supermarket. To improve the on-site management of the supermarket and to control the flow of goods in the warehouses, 5 PDAs are used with an application developed in .NET that communicates with ERP through Web Services.